Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 612 Choice of Script
"The choice of Jinmen as the filming location was due to the foreign powers' concession. At the end of the Jin Dynasty, because it served as the residence of the Governor of Zhili and the Minister of Beiyang Commerce, it also became the main base for Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai to launch Westernization and develop Beiyang forces."

"In this situation, it is at the foot of the capital city, and the control is not as strict as the capital city. Therefore, most of the merchants and people from the rivers and lakes from the north and the south gather in this area, which makes this place as prosperous as the ten-mile foreign market. For half a century, All kinds of entanglements, grievances and killings are staged here in turn, for example, the prototype of the movie Huo Yuanjia happened here in Jinmen."

"The reason for choosing Jinmen as the second shooting location is also because foreigners are more familiar with this city. Apart from the capital city and the Shanghai city, I guess foreigners are more familiar with Jinmen, including several people who opened the sea in the early years. A city with concessions, right?"

Zhang Yishan nodded after listening, and couldn't help asking curiously:

"Is there too much content in this script?"

He has also read the script distributed by the crew, and the dozens of stories selected are indeed a bit too horrifying and unbelievable.

Xie Zihao shook his head and replied:
"Of course it's impossible to shoot all these dozens of stories. It's not the kind of TV series with dozens of episodes. If you make a movie, you will only lose money and pawn your bottoms, right?"

Although Zhang Yishan has not participated in the work of film crews, as an insider, he actually has a certain understanding of these things. Just now he just felt that the number of stories listed by the crew was too much, which was a bit too scary.

There's no way, who made him have a natural rebellion against horror movies!
"Then which story do you think the crew will choose? I think there are some stories here that can only be understood by our unique culture in China. It shouldn't be easy for those foreigners to understand, right?"

"I think you are afraid, right? This will be different from the previous Dragon Falling. The dragon is also alive and will die, and these bizarre and weird stories are the kind you are most afraid of. I am really afraid that when the time comes I was so scared that I peed my pants on the set! Haha!"

What Xie Zihao said was not so sure, because about the keel before, since there are extraordinary things left in the world like the keel, no one can guarantee whether there will be remnants of the old era in this world.

Zhang Yishan was ridiculed and couldn't help punching Xie Zihao in the chest.

He actually understands this truth.

As for the stories introduced in the script, they have been adapted and beautified by the screenwriter, and they look even more terrifying. While Zhang Yishan felt a little panicked, he couldn’t help but read it curiously, and then went to sleep at night. Insomnia is definitely a typical dish and loves to play.

When Xie Zihao was in college, he liked to turn off the lights in the dormitory and watch some suspenseful horror movies. Looking back, every time I saw Zhang Yishan pretending to be calm, he always used excuses to go to the bathroom when he saw scary horror clips, or simply turned his head away. If you dare to look at it, you will find it very funny.

Because of the Xie family's inheritance and business relationship, he has been interested in horror movies since he was a child.This is due to the fact that my grandfather specially found some horror videos when he was a child to bring him courage training.

Although there are no such things in the world, as a Taoist mage whose main job is to subdue demons and eliminate demons, how can he be feasible if his mental quality is not good enough?

If faced with some pretense and ghostly tricks, you can be scared to death, and even chanting mantras and spells are too frightening to complete, then what is the ability to do deeds and exorcise evil spirits?
Therefore, folk dharma lines like the Xie family have always had a tradition of practicing bravery for their disciples.

In ancient times, most people went to sleep on graves, ruined temples, mass graves and other places where evil spirits easily gathered. In modern times, it is not appropriate to have fewer places like that. The air-conditioning in the hospital morgue is too cold and it is easy to catch a cold, so watching horror Film is a good choice to create an atmosphere.

In this era of materialism, although this kind of courage training has lost its practical value, it does have a certain impact on a person's mind.

At least now, Xie Zihao thinks to himself that he will not be overly surprised when encountering any unexpected accident, but can calmly think about how to deal with it immediately with a better attitude.

The fact that Xie Zihao didn't blink while watching horror movies in the dormitory back then has become a legend in their school through the rumors of his classmates.

This further gave him a not-so-good reputation for being eccentric.

Of course, Zhang Yishan once asked Xie Zihao, knew what was going on, and even tried to imitate him in the experiment of gallbladder training. Unfortunately, this kid was really afraid of those things, and every time he was so frightened that he couldn't bear to give up halfway.

The two were discussing in the car, and within a few hours of leaving Shanhaiguan, they quickly arrived at Jinmen City at the foot of the capital.

Liaodong seems to be very far away from the capital in people's impressions. In fact, the road is mostly plains. It only takes more than seven hours to get there from the provincial capital by expressway to the capital, and they start from Liaohe, which is the first pass in the world. Not far away, the time required is naturally shorter.

After all, these two sides belonged to the land of Yanzhao in ancient times, and they have been connected together since ancient times.

As a city developed since the Ming Dynasty, Jinmen is also one of the few large cities in the north of the Eastern Kingdom, and it is also ranked among the top ten in the country.

Unlike Zhang Yishan who travels all over the country to discuss business, Xie Zihao rarely visits this kind of big city.

After driving for a few hours, although it was still early after noon when we arrived in Jinmen, Sophia still gave all the crew a half-day vacation, and decided to recuperate for one night and start filming tomorrow.

In the afternoon, the female director called all the main personnel to the hotel conference room, and the ordinary staff took a rest. They had to make detailed plans for the next shooting plan.

You must know that there are more than one strange local-related stories on the script, but as many as 36 stories are collected from the Internet and old newspapers through the docking company here, which are still left after preliminary screening Number of.

And the crew definitely won't shoot all these events one by one in Jinmen, what needs to be filmed at most is to choose one or two most exciting stories.

How to choose the most suitable story is the main topic of today's meeting.

The script to be determined has been sent to everyone. Regarding this kind of local legend in the Eastern Kingdom, several foreigners in the crew do not know much about the situation. Therefore, with the reference opinions of several Eastern Nationals, some fragmentary and out-of-time incidents will be ruled out first. .

For example, the drowning incident in a certain place, after more than ten or twenty years of vicissitudes, now even the pond can not be found, not to mention that the corpses of the year have long been cremated to ashes, so this kind of story lacks a scene and is too monotonous. Let’s take the first step excluded by everyone.

Some more disgusting stories were also excluded, such as those involving public toilets, cesspit, etc. After all, their director is a beautiful woman, so it is not appropriate to shoot such disgusting and indecent plots!
And both men and women will feel disgusted by such dirty things, right?

In the end, everyone screened and screened, and there were only five stories left on the whiteboard on the wall of the conference room. Sophia knocked on the table and said:

"For the remaining five, let's talk about your opinions!"

After most people finished speaking and it was Xie Zihao's turn, the female director looked at him.

Xie Zihao had no choice but to stand up and walk forward, drawing a circle on one of the names with a red marker.

"A haunted mansion?"

When the female director pronounced the name, several other Dongguo personnel were also a little surprised.

In their opinion, this story should be regarded as the bottom one among the five stories. It is nothing more than a clichéd story about someone dying tragically in a building due to some accident and then turning into a fierce spirit body to make trouble. In China, there are actually too many films in Hollywood, such as those movies or TV series related to haunted houses and haunted houses, which fall into this category.

More importantly, if you want to shoot this kind of plot in other people's buildings, you need to communicate with relevant parties. After all, it will delay people's normal work, which is more troublesome.

So they didn't propose to choose this event before.

Seeing everyone's expressions in her eyes, Sophia did not express her opinion immediately, but asked Xie Zihao:
"Can you tell me why you chose this?"

(End of this chapter)